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The dust had barely settled on the Republican Party's drubbing in November when party leaders called for a through examination of what went wrong. "We've got to give our political organization a very serious proctology exam," said Haley Barbour, the former Mississippi governor. "We need to look everywhere." The GOP had just lost the White House and dropped seats in the House and Senate. If the first step to fixing the problem is admitting you have one, Republicans took that first step with alacrity.
Nearly three months later, however, the great Republican reckoning hasn't gotten much further. It's not that they aren't trying. The Republican National Committee set up a ethnically diverse working group of party elders to solicit input and devise a plan for the future. The House GOP held a seminar on how to communicate with minorities and women, groups that spurned them en masse in November. Pollsters were summoned to advise members to stop talking about rape. Strategists wielded stats underlining the demographic changes that could consign the party to permanent-minority status if it can't find a way to broaden its base. All of these are important steps. But for all the bracing talk, the GOP is still ignoring its deepest liability: not its tone, but the substance of its policies.
That was apparent from a pair of buzzy speeches delivered at the RNC's winter meeting, at a hotel in Charlotte, N.C., where the party's brain trust spent three days last week mulling how to refashion itself for the future. One was delivered by Reince Priebus, the RNC chairman, who was overwhelmingly re-elected to a second term despite the defeat in November. It's worth reading his remarks in full, but the gist was simple. The Republican Party's beliefs aren't the problem, Priebus said. Its messaging is the problem. "We can stand by our timeless principles—and articulate them in ways that are modern," he said, "relevant to our time and relatable to the majority of voters. And that, I believe, is how we'll achieve a Republican renewal. That's how we'll grow. That's how we'll win." He wants to abandon the laser focus on battleground states and compete everywhere, bringing the re-tooled Republican message into communities that rejected it last fall.
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This seems a reasonable strategy as far as it goes, but the only specific innovations Priebus cited for cultivating new supporters were "Skype-based training sessions and Google hangouts on campaign strategy, fundraising, door-to-door advocacy, and digital tools." This is like aspiring to battle Barack Obama's stable of tech whizzes with an Apple IIGS and a land line. The rest of the speech, which news outlets hailed as a "major overhaul" and a "plan for renewal," was a nutrient-free series of platitudes. There was no call for substantive change, only tonal tweaks, because Priebus, like nearly all Republican bigwigs, doesn't believe the GOP needs to change its policies. "The good news is our principles are sound," he said. "We stand for opportunity and for liberty. Freedom is always a new idea—an ever-fresh, revolutionary idea."
The second important speech — "dynamite," raved the conservative Washington Examiner — was delivered by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, one of a handful of national figures with his sights already set on 2016. Since November, as potential candidates jockey to carve out their niches in a crowded primary, Jindal has tried to position himself as a straight-shooting reformer. "We must stop being the stupid party," he said, not for the first time. "It's time for a new Republican party that talks like adults."
The admonition grabbed headlines because it sounds edgy, but most of the speech was crib-safe, rife with time-tested Washington-bashing and paeans to free markets and small government. In a perfect world, he muses, "We would replace most of its bureaucracy with a handful of good websites." (Perhaps Skype and Google.) He urged Republicans to end "the obsession with zeroes" and coalesce around issues that matter in "the real economy out here in Charlotte, and Shreveport, and Cheyenne."
(MORE: House GOP Postpones Debt-Limit Fight–For Now)
Like Priebus, Jindal focuses on tone and tactics. Tone and tactics were indeed problems for Republicans in 2012. Remarks about "self-deportation" and "legitimate rape" and the "47%" who "depend on government" were harmful. But they were symptoms of the real problem, which was a set of philosophical beliefs that produced policies most Americans don't like.
In 2012, the Republican Party was hurt by its positions on immigration, abortion, gay rights, contraception, climate change and social-spending programs. Fidelity to these positions will only cripple it further over time, as the U.S. becomes more socially liberal and less white. Moneyed conservative outside groups and a GOP base that has lurched to the right lately are prepared to punish dissidents. Which is why it is no surprise that even now, in this period of reflection on the party's failures, the GOP is letting its policies go largely unexamined. (Immigration policy is a notable exception.)
Instead, Republicans want to modernize their infrastructure, re-write the electoral college rule book in their favor, modulate their tone. "We need to be a happy party," Newt Gingrich said. The GOP should be "an exciting party that smiles," Priebus said.
The Republican Party did not lose in November because of its tone, and it did not lose because of tactics, although it got beat on both counts. It lost because a majority of Americans rejected their views on key topics. Until Republicans come to grips with that, renewal will remain a long way off.
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So, at what point did you start believing this deflated football controversy? Were you home from an early Monday morning walk, expecting an easy MLK Day full of NFL highlights and entertaining Internet memes featuring various Patriots beating dead horses in Colts uniforms? Did you see the telltale question mark on the sports ticker, something like, "Pats Under Investigation?" when you first felt the elation of their AFC conquest sag a bit?
Did you not want to believe it? Do you yet?
Coach Bill Belichick's subsequent meeting with the press offered no reassurance. He bookended answers with "We'll do whatever the league asks us to do," giving two separate "The first I heard of it was this morning," responses. Nary a straightforward denial among them.
He did it. Of course he did. Because Bill Belichick – like most NFL coaches, to an extreme – is different from you and me.
Some with only a cursory understanding of these topics would say that Belichick ignores the rules. On the contrary, he obsesses over them. Think about his most consistent teacher over the years, his father. The man played professional football in 1941. Can you imagine the stories he could tell? Can you imagine what was thought of as "legal" for the 1940s Detroit Lions? Back then, considering the lack of protection, "helmet-to-helmet" resembled a head butt. Water breaks were for the weak. Just a completely different mindset of what was considered fair.
The younger Belichick knows the rules so well that he ensured quarterback/living B.C. statue Doug Flutie's final play was a history-making drop kick for an extra point back in January 2006. At the time, very few knew whether a drop kick was still legal. Hell, not a lot of people knew what a drop kick was. Flutie became the first player to score a point by that method since Scooter McLean kicked for the Bears' championship win in – surprise – 1941. (A fact Belichick knew, by the way: just read his post-game interview here.)
Imagine an SAT-type test involving NFL rules. Some multiple choice, some true/false, a couple of essays (haven't taken the SAT in about 30 years, so apologies if it's completely different now). He'd come out doing pretty well, right? Now imagine Roger Goodell taking the same test. Unless there's a section on what cocktails to serve while sitting at the club waiting for the staff to service an owner's yacht, hard to say ol' Rog nails it.
That's Belichick. He knows more than you. He knows he knows more than you. It seems he wants people to just leave him alone and let him do what he has been groomed to do since he watched game film with his dad as boy: to try to understand and prepare that much better than his opponent. And, in a sense, the rules makers and enforcers have become his opponents, too.
I mean, press conferences must feel like agony for this guy. The same questions, over and over, to people who don't understand or have failed to put in the work to understand the game on the same level. At times, especially with the out-of-town media who show up week-to-week, it's got to seem like he's trying to explain Memento to someone who started watching near the end. It's why, when he gets a question with specific historical context, he puts on his metaphorical suspenders and lectures about the history of the great game of football. It's why, except at outdoor practices, he rarely sees sunlight during the season.
He wouldn't have it any other way. His work is his fun. He's not like you and me.
Make no mistake; these don't qualify as excuses, just potential reasons. Belichick cheated. He knew the proper inflation for footballs, and – after watching his team put the ball on the ground three times the week before – he decided to soften the spheroids to make them easier to hold during a driving rainstorm.
"But you don't know that," you are saying. "You weren't there. Maybe he knew nothing about it." Do you actually believe Bill Belichick knew nothing about 11 footballs inflated two pounds less than required? Come on. You have to give him more credit than that.
So now fans must either turn a blind eye or, as WEEI.com's Jerry Thornton does well in this piece regarding Eli Manning's ball ritual (yup, sticking with that phrase), start playing the "everyone does it" card. It's a strong card to play here: more and more examples have arisen of doctoring footballs, including a jocular on-air exchange between announcers Phil Simms and Jim Nantz regarding Aaron Rodgers' preference for overinflated footballs and a piece on Super Bowl winner Brad Johnson having footballs doctored before the big game vs. Oakland.
(On that last one: Raiders fans get all up in arms over the Tuck Rule – an actual, albeit silly, rule – but they don't go totally bat-guano over this? Pick your battles, Oakland fans!)
I can't argue against the accusations of rampant hypocrisy in the NFL. Linebacker Ray Lewis used a banned substance to help him recover from a triceps injury during Baltimore's championship run. The Seahawks had several players suspended due to PED use leading up to last year's Super Bowl season. Were they cheating? Sure seems like it. Do we care? Not much, apparently.
Why should we? Goodell didn't seem to care about taping defensive signals until he heard numerous complaints. He didn't seem to care about brain injuries until it became a money issue via lawsuit. He didn't seem to care about domestic abuse until video of a violent assault made its way onto the Internet for all to see. He made up punishments as he went along. Now he'll have to do the same.
I'll skip the joke about inflating the balls of NFL owners and head straight for the obvious: this was not an issue Goodell expected to deal with this week. That's part of what gets Belichick into trouble: his understanding of the rules and his efforts at circumventing them make Goodell and the league higher-ups look bad. After all, what is the punishment? There's mention of a minimum $25,000 fine. Goodell will increase that, because he'll want to send a message. But by how much, and why? More work for him. More to hammer out and nail down before the Super holiday.
In any case, it doesn't seem like Belichick will get the message Goodell wants to send. The coach will go back to the rule book, studying, deconstructing, looking for language that could potentially give him an advantage. The coach does this as well as anyone else in the league. It's a fan's choice whether to embrace this line of thinking or not. We know he didn't need to tinker with air pressure to beat the Colts. We know he preps his players for on-field situations with awesome meticulousness. We can't ignore his greatness. We can't ignore his faults, either.
We know this about Bill Belichick: he has cheated; he will probably figure out a way to cheat again.
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As an incident that we reported on last week shows, the Internet routing system isn't as secure as we want it to be. But how bad is it really?
Let's start with a very short introduction into Internet routing. Routing is based on autonomous systems (ASes) exchanging prefixes (ranges of IP addresses) using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Autonomous systems are first and foremost Internet Service Providers (ISPs). However, some end-user organizations swim with the big fish, usually in order to connect to two or more ISPs at the same time. The IP addresses ISPs give out to their customers are aggregated into a relatively small number of prefixes that cover large address blocks, and these prefixes are "announced" or "advertised" over BGP to other ASes. Prefixes make their way from AS to AS, so eventually the entire Internet knows where to send packets with a given destination address.
The term "Border Gateway Protocol" makes more sense in the context of 20 years ago, when the word "gateway" was used for what we today call a router. So BGP is the protocol used between border routers—the routers that sit at the edge of neighboring autonomous systems. ASes connect in a hierarchy that looks a lot like this:
The up/down relationships are between ISPs and their customers; the customer pays the ISP. The dotted lines from side to side are "peering" relationships where traffic is exchanged without money changing hands. The economic models are such that traffic flows up the hierarchy, then sideways, and finally down. Paths that go sideways, then up or down, and then sideways again only happen if someone is giving away free service, and is thus rare.
So packets from AS 6 to AS 5 may follow the path 6 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 5, where AS 6 pays AS 3, which in turn pays AS 1, with AS 5 paying AS 2. So all the ISPs get paid, even though AS 1 doesn't pay AS 2 (or the other way around). However, the path 6 - 3 - 4 - 2 - 5 is not a valid way to get from AS 6 to AS 5. In this case, AS 4 would have to pay AS 2 for this traffic, but AS 3 doesn't pay AS 4 anything so, so AS 4 would be giving away service for free. On the other hand, from AS 6 to AS 8 over the path 6 - 3 - 4 - 8 is fine, because AS 8 is AS 4's customer so AS 8 pays AS 4 for the incoming traffic.
BGP itself is blissfully unaware of all the money issues. In its default state, BGP will trust everything that it hears and happily give away service for free. To avoid this, BGP routers must be configured with filters that make sure only correct information is carried by the protocol. Additionally, prefix advertisements, which are BGP's way of inviting incoming traffic, are only sent in accordance with business relationships.
With knowledge of how each AS is interconnected with other ASes and whether a connection involves a customer/ISP relationship or peering, it's possible to know exactly how each destination throughout the Internet should be reached from any given source. In addition, it's necessary to know which range of IP addresses belongs to which AS. Accounting for rerouting after failures adds some complexity, but is not a problem.
Knowledge of the graph of the network and the AS-prefix relationships would make it possible to create filters that validate the information received over BGP and reject incorrect or falsified information, and there are routing databases where ASes can register this information. Unfortunately, many people fail to do so, and the information that is there is often incomplete. The IETF and the Regional Internet Registries that give out IP addresses and AS numbers are now working on a database and certificate infrastructure that would allow network operators to do exactly this, but we're not there yet.
Where are those servers, anyway?
Network operators simply don't know whether CNN's servers are in Atlanta or Beijing. So when BGP updates come in claiming the latter, ISPs—well, their routers—have very little choice other than to install those updates and start sending traffic in the new direction. 999 times out of 1,000, a rerouting event like this is a routine change in the network or an equally routine repair of a failure. But that last one in 1,000 is incorrect—either a mistake or because of an attack of some kind.
Back in the 1990s, an incident like the one that sent traffic to China would have forced network engineers to scramble for hours debugging and fixing the problem. But these days, such incidents are way too common. As a result, a battery of monitoring systems is available Internet-wide. So the notion of something like this staying under the radar is about as likely as a tank driving down Pennsylvania Avenue without drawing any attention.
This leads to an unpleasant state of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, it's inconceivable that Internet routing is so gullible. On the other hand, it works well most of the time. Fixing the situation would be complex, expensive, and wouldn't pay off anytime soon.
(I went to my first IETF meeting in 2002, when inter-domain [read: inter-AS] routing security was high on the agenda. I remember having lunch at a pizza place in Atlanta with 20 people from Cisco, furiously drawing AS topologies on our napkins the whole time. At that time, there were two proposals on the table to make BGP more secure: S-BGP [Secure BGP] by BBN and soBGP [secure origin BGP] by Cisco. A lot of fighting about these proposals and the difficulties of fixing the problem and even making any changes at all to BGP made almost a decade pass with little to show for it.)
Don't underestimate the complexities involved in securing Internet-wide routing. What if a certificate used in S-BGP or soBGP expires? If that means that a connection is brought down, good luck downloading the updated certificate.
Routing is a critical real-time system. In such systems, the traditional security model of shutting down when security credentials can't be validated doesn't really work. When the system is working, it's important to use security mechanisms to keep attackers from disrupting it. At the same time, it's essential that these same security mechanisms don't get in the way of fixing the system when it has failed or is about to fail. Unfortunately, existing security models don't strike that balance.
The saving grace of Internet routing is that most ISPs carefully filter what their customers send them. So, if I instruct my BGP router to tell my ISP that I'm the owner of the Windows Update IP address, my ISP should know better and ignore this BGP advertisement. Since there is a business relationship between ISPs and customers, both sides have an incentive to keep up to date with any changes in prefixes that are announced.
Once incorrect information has passed the customer-ISP boundary, however, it will quickly spread over peering connections without finding too much in the way of filtering in its way. Because, as noted above, there is currently no Internet-wide database of authoritative routing information that can be used to generate filters. The only way for ISPs to filter their peers would be to continuously exchange updated information on a one-to-one basis. Because of the continuous churn in customers and the addition of new prefixes, as well as the large numbers of peers big ISPs have, this is simply unworkable.
Reexamining the China routing snafu
So what exactly happened in China that caused 15 percent of the Internet's prefixes—not 15 percent the traffic—to get rerouted to that nation in April? And was it an accident or something more malicious? I wasn't at the China Telecommunications Corporation office to observe the incident as it unfolded, so I can't say for sure whether this was a diabolical plan executed to perfection or a network engineer doing something really, really stupid. But I'm betting on the latter, and not just because of Hanlon's Razor.
One common BGP screw-up is leaking the entire routing table. There are currently some 341,000 prefixes making up the Internet and, in order to be able to reach them all, BGP routers need to have all of these in their routing tables. If, for some reason, a BGP router doesn't have any filters, it will simply send a copy of that full table to all the routers in neighboring ASes that it's connected to.
Leaking a full table is a mistake that happens fairly regularly, and it looks like this is what happened in China. Here's what may have gone down.
When a filter is updated, it can become nonfunctional. Usually, this is caught with a "maximum prefixes" filter of last resort—this kills a BGP session if more than a predetermined number of prefixes is received. But, even without this, such a leak usually isn't too devastating because a detour through (for instance) China means that additional ASes are traversed, and BGP prefers shorter paths over longer ones. This is possible because, for each prefix, the ASes on the way to that destination are recorded in an "AS path."
However, just leaking the full table, or at least a sizable fraction of it, was exacerbated by a curious design decision by China Telecom. That decision made it look to the outside world like China Telecom had also stripped off the AS path from all the prefixes that it had leaked. So it looked to peers of China Telecom that destinations such as CNN were located in China Telecom's network, rather than that CNN was merely reachable through China Telecom.
This is why relatively many ASes started sending their traffic to China. Stripping off the AS paths happens when information in BGP is exported into another routing protocol that is used locally, and then re-exported back into BGP. This practice is considered dangerous because of earlier incidents like the one discussed here. There is also not really any good reason to do it—there are a few not-so-good reasons—and I can't think of any way that this would happen by accident.
So just the leaking of a full or partial BGP table in itself isn't too suspicious, although networks the size of China Telecom should know better. But doing so with the AS paths removed may be construed as a reason for a moderate level of suspicion by those so inclined.
If I were more paranoid, however, I would start looking around the Internet for anomalous prefix/AS combinations that show up randomly for short periods of time. Someone who really wants to intercept traffic would be better off hosting a few servers and a BGP router in a data center somewhere in the well-connected world and then try to see which ISPs fail to filter properly. With an ISP located, a targeted attack could be mounted to reroute traffic for much longer than 18 minutes without being found out. Rerouting North-American prefixes within America would also be much less suspicious than rerouting North-American prefixes to China, not to mention providing a much higher degree of deniability.
While we wait for some form of BGP security to become available, we should all think about what would happen if the addresses of the remote systems we communicate with are rerouted and our traffic intercepted. Encryption and cryptographic authentication such as HTTPS or a VPN protects against this. However, there is a problem with encryption: certificate authorities may not be as trustworthy as they should be. How to work around that is a story for another day.


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Death threats, ultimatum from powerful Muslims compel father of 12-year-old to move.
GUJRANWALA, Pakistan, May 25 (CDN) — A Christian who accused a Muslim of raping his 12-year-old daughter has fled his town in Punjab Province with his family following death threats and police pressure to drop the case.
Citing "continuous threats" to take his life, Zafar Masih left Gujranwala's predominantly Muslim town of Nai Abadi Tatlay Aali within 10 days of accusing Ali Ahmed, a 28-year-old businessman, of beating and raping his daughter on May 12.
His daughter, whose name was withheld, told Compass that her employer, Ahmed, beat and raped her when she went to his home, where she worked as a house servant. When she arrived she was surprised to find him at home in his room, she said.
"He grabbed my hair and asked me to sleep with him," she said, amid tears. "I refused to let him have sexual relations with me, which enraged him."
Her body marred with bruises, she said he tore her clothes and she screamed, but no one else was in the home to hear her.
"Ali Ahmed overpowered me, and all my efforts were futile even though I strained with all my energy to stop him," she said. "After getting stigmatized, I was threatened with dire consequences and the slaying of my whole family if I told about the rape."
The oldest of four children, she fled the house and immediately sent her younger brother to call her father, who was working in a nearby field, she said.
Masih, her father, said he immediately went to Tatlay Aali police station and submitted an application to file a First Information Report against Ahmed. Station House Officer Inspector Iqbal Ojjhra refused, he said, and began to pressure him to withdraw the application.
A powerful local politician along with the area's largest land owner, Imtiyaz Kharral, have since threatened to maim or kill him, Masih said.
"I declined to withdraw my application, though I was being immensely pressured by both the leading Muslim men," Masih said. "And Inspector Ojjhra had a new alibi every day for not registering the case."
Inspector Ojjhra denied all allegations against him. He told Compass that he declined to register a rape case because he did not want to harm the Christian girl's dignity, so instead he had recommended trying to resolve the conflict in a public gathering or "punchayat."
Arif Masih, a Nai Abadi Tatlay Aali representative for local Christians, told Compass that the next evening, May 13, Kharral called a meeting at his farmhouse with Inspector Ojjhra, local Muslims and a contingent of police officers. Also summoned were Zafar Masih and his children, Arif Masih and the other Christian families of the town.
"At Imtiyaz Kharral's farmhouse gathering, none of the Christians were allowed to speak or express their opinion," said Arif Masih, who said the wealthy land owner considered himself the head of the town. "Even I being representative of the Christians was not allowed to speak for [Zafar Masih's daughter] or put forward the demands of the Christians."
Only Kharral spoke, saying that there were only two options – Zafar Masih could withdraw his rape charge, or he and the other Christian families in Nai Abadi Tatlay Aali could relocate elsewhere.
"He ignored the fact that the girl would have to live her whole life with this irrecoverable loss and stigma," Arif Masih said. "I was totally helpless in this showdown, because Imtiyaz Kharral and Ali Ahmed have the favor of the local police head, Iqbal Ojjhra."
Khalid Gill, chairman of the Christian Lawyers Foundation (CLF), condemned the dismissive police attitude toward marginalized Christians. He suggested that the chief justice of the Lahore High Court take suo moto action against the suspect, his associates and police officers as responsible for mental anguish of the area Christians.
Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, a Christian member of Punjab's legislative assembly, also denounced the alleged rape and pledged to extend legal and financial support to the family of Zafar Masih.
Most of the area Christians are construction laborers, sanitation workers and domestic servants working for daily wages. Zafar Masih said he could not afford to educate his children because he was living close to poverty level.
"My eldest daughter worked as a maidservant for a monthly salary of 500 rupees [less than US$6] to lend a hand," he said. "We Christians in Pakistan have no life even dogs live better life than us."
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This Cloudways Review will examine the features and benefits offered by this cloud storage provider. You'll learn about Cloudways' 24×7 support, two-factor authentication, and the pay-as-you-go model. We'll also look at its added-on features, including DNS Made Easy, Rackspace Email, and ElasticMail. We'll also discuss how to invite friends to Cloudways, and earn $20.
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So first, I want you to note that today's Wreck is, and I quote, a "Custom Decoration."
And that's why this Wreck is a Wreck for women of all ages...
Alyce C., don't pad the truth, now: Does this bakery's Tres Leches give you wings?
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Busy Day for Bama
Rob Meltzer
Hey, did you hear? We may have a new Treasury Secretary and, wait for it, it's another middle age white guy!!!!!
Meanwhile, the Bamameister is rushing to New York to be seen on the docks of the latest ferry disaster, where hopefully there will be bodies to view and relatives to console. Look for ferry control as a big issue for this Administration.
Today, Human Rights Watch has confirmed that more innocent civilians have been killed in Obama's drone strikes than in all school shootings in the past four years. Guns don't kill kids–Obama does.
And its only one oclock….


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In recent years, the idea that the climate is driven by clouds and cosmic rays has received plenty of attention. Interest in the idea was prompted by a Danish physicist named Henrik Svensmark, who first suggested it in the late 1990s. Using satellite data on cloud coverage, which became available with the establishment of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project in 1983, Svensmark found a correlation between lower troposphere cloud cover and the 11-year solar cycle.
He proposed that cosmic rays initiate the formation of aerosols in the lower atmosphere that then form condensation nuclei for cloud droplets, increasing cloud formation from water vapor. Since low-level clouds increase Earth's albedo (the amount of incoming solar radiation that is reflected back into space), more clouds mean cooler temperatures. Svensmark claimed that this mechanism was responsible for virtually every climatic event in Earth history, from ice ages to the Faint Young Sun paradox to Snowball Earth to our current warming trend. Needless to say, this would overturn decades of climate research.
Cosmic "rays" are actually energetic subatomic particles. The solar wind shields the Earth from many of the cosmic rays coming from elsewhere in the Milky Way, so the number of rays that reach the Earth is modulated by variations in solar activity, such as the well-known 11-year solar cycle.
Early work by Svensmark and a group at CERN (we recently covered their initial results) has indicated that charged particles like cosmic rays can cause molecules of sulfuric acid, water, or other vapors to combine and form aerosols (particles about 1 nanometer in diameter). This provides a potential link between cosmic rays and cloud formation.
Understanding aerosols
Note the word "potential." There are a number of things that need to happen before those aerosols can affect cloud cover. They must increase in mass about 100,000-fold before they're the size of the condensation nuclei that facilitate water droplet formation in clouds. The CLOUD experiment at CERN may eventually be able to provide insight into that process; in the meantime, other studies have examined it using atmospheric models that simulate aerosol processes.
These studies have indicated that the number of cloud condensation nuclei is not very sensitive to the nucleation of aerosols by cosmic rays. There are a few reasons for this. First, there are many other sources of aerosols (including particles in sea spray and anthropogenic emissions), so the total change in aerosols due to fluctuations in cosmic-ray-induced nucleation is not as significant as it might otherwise be. Second, the aerosols are competing with each other to condense a limited supply of vapor, meaning that any increase in the total cloud condensation nuclei is limited.
In addition, most aerosols collide and combine with other particles long before reaching the size of a cloud condensation nucleus—a process called "coagulation." Increasing the number of aerosols increases the frequency of these collisions, again dampening the effect on the number of condensation nuclei.
In model simulations, a 15 percent increase in cosmic rays (which is about the variation in one 11-year solar cycle) leads to an increase in condensation nuclei of less than 0.2 percent. Even assuming that cosmic rays could have a significant effect on cloud condensation nuclei, it remains to be shown that this would, in fact, account for the observed fluctuations in global low cloud cover.
Rays, clouds, and climate
Since the direct connection between cosmic rays and clouds remains tenuous, the case for cosmic ray control of climate has been made primarily on correlations between global low cloud cover and solar activity. Historically, some climate events can be correlated with changes in solar activity, but there has been no long-term trend in cosmic rays to accompany the temperature rise of the last few decades.
The apparent correlation between rays and cloud cover described by Svensmark has been strong enough to maintain interest in the hypothesis; however, other analyses have suggested that the correlation may be weaker than Svensmark suggested. And, as one researcher noted in Nature, "Because the climate displays a multitude of cycles on almost all timescales, detection of a correlation among climate variables usually meets with initial and healthy skepticism." That's especially true for correlations between data covering short periods of time.
In the latest analysis, researchers from Purdue University put together the most up-to-date cloud and cosmic ray data (their paper is currently in press in the Journal of Climate), and the update is noteworthy. The correlation that had been observed between low cloud cover and cosmic rays between 1983 and 2004 did not continue in the four years following. (Data from 2009-2010 is not yet available.) When cosmic rays increased as the solar cycle reached a low, cloud cover did not follow. In fact, it decreased instead—at a time of unusually high cosmic rays.
The authors write, "It is concluded that the observational results presented, showing several years of disconnect between GCRs and lower troposphere global cloudiness, add additional concern to the cosmic ray-cloud connection hypothesis. In fact, this has been done in the most dramatic way with the measurement of record high levels of GCRs during the deep, extended quiet period of [solar] cycle 23-24, which is accompanied by record low levels of lower troposphere global cloudiness."
The authors are quick to point out that there are general concerns about the reliability of satellite measurements of low cloud cover, as it may not be possible to completely separate the effects of higher-level clouds. Nevertheless, the marked divergence of the two datasets is likely to be a hot topic as the research moves forward and new data continues to roll in. One thing we know for certain about Svensmark's cosmic ray hypothesis, though: it attracts a lot of attention.
Journal of Climate, 2011. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00169.1 (About DOIs).
Listing image by Photograph by Simon Swordy (U. Chicago), NASA


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And a boyfriend?
In Touch reported a couple of weeks ago that Amber Heard and her girlfriend Tasya were done. That's In Touch for you. Amber and Tasya stepped out together yesterday. They're not done. That doesn't mean she's not also f-cking Johnny Depp (which, I mean, I still don't feel slamdunk about this one) and she could very well use that to her advantage if she's selling herself as the next Angelina Jolie. If that's the case, well, we have some work to do.
There was a story reported earlier this week about Vanessa Paradis and her reaction to Amber's supposed involvement in the breakup of her relationship with Johnny. According to Now Magazine "Vanessa's devastated that Johnny's dumped her. She blames Amber and calls her a man-stealing, two-bit nobody and has vowed to not let her anywhere near their children".
What is a Now Magazine? It's another one of those bullsh-t UK publications. Please. I promise you that Now Magazine isn't a prime source on Vanessa Paradis. Vanessa Paradis has better game than that. You think Vanessa Paradis walks around hating on homewreckers like she drives a MiniVan? Vanessa Paradis is capable of a lot more creativity. And besides, she keeps her sh-t tight. If she cuts a bitch in the night, she'll do it so that someone else gets blamed.
As for what Johnny Depp has been up to, besides sending thank you cards every day to Tom Cruise, if I could poll you my question would be: who comes up with a new girlfriend first - Depp or Cruise?


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Fantasy Value Reassessment: Carl Crawford, Alex Rodriguez, Ubaldo Jimenez
There is no question about it, 2011 was a stinker for Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford. Acquiring the best player from the rival team was supposed to assure that the Red Sox would surpass the Rays in the AL East, but instead Crawford's disappointment was amongst many others for Boston as they failed to make the playoffs.
What followed was a tumultuous off-season that saw the departure of the manager and general manager. However, Crawford remains.
While last year's struggles can be tied to Crawford's acclimation to a major market for the first time in his career plus some nagging injuries, don't forget the reason why fantasy managers liked him so much heading into last season. He is a line drive machine who should be able to use the Green Monster as a weapon, while adding speed to the top of the lineup.
Part of the issue for Crawford's poor numbers was the fact that he was pushed down to the seventh spot of the Red Sox lineup. As a result his runs took a major hit. Always interested in the psyche of his players, expect Bobby Valentine to give Crawford every chance to succeed towards the top of the order.
Bloomberg Sports Front Office expects a decent bounce back from Crawford. He should blast 14 home runs with 35 stolen bases and a respectable .281 batting clip. Of course, this can only happen if he stays healthy. Crawford is currently dealing with a sore wrist that is threatening his ability to be a part of the Red Sox lineup on Opening Day.
Expectations have never been lower, which makes him a decent middle round sleeper considering his sky-high potential that made him a bust last season.
For many years we have come to expect 30 home runs and 100 RBI from Alex Rodriguez. Those benchmarks also came with great run production, solid stolen base totals, and a batting average north of .300. Not anymore.
Last season we saw that even the great ones are mortal. A-Rod managed just 16 home runs as he was hampered by injuries all season. Though he looks to be in great shape entering the spring and had some medical procedures done during the off-season, the big question in the Bronx is whether it's even possible for A-Rod to return to prominence as an elite slugger.
The answer is probably no. There is a very well known pattern for players entering their late 30s tailing off in production. It is also clear that Rodriguez is not as healthy as he was when he was younger. It was five years ago that he last played 140 games in a season.
Bloomberg Sports does anticipate a mild bounce back. A-Rod should pound 23 home runs with 82 RBI. That would mean he finishes the season with an astounding 652 career home runs. Unfortunately, we are at the point in A-Rod's career where we will celebrate what he's accomplished over time rather than on a day-to-day basis.
It was shocking enough that an ace would tame Coors Field, it's even more mesmerizing that he actually regressed when traded to a far more pitcher-friendly ballpark.
Ubaldo Jimenez was an elite pitcher in 2010. He finished that season with a 19-8 record, but was even more dazzling at the All-Star break with a 15-1 record and 2.20 ERA. Since then, Jimenez has regressed to being a barely above average hurler.
In the second half of the memorable 2010 season, Jimenez went 4-7 with a 3.80 ERA. He then struggled out of the gate in 2011 and was traded to the Indians when his record was 6-9. Things went from bad to worse, as his ERA soared to 5.10 during his 11 starts with the Indians.
Jimenez will try to start from scratch this season, and while his results in his first two spring training starts are not very promising, the good news is that his fastball is back over 95 MPH for the first time since 2010. Regardless, Jimenez remains a risky pick for fantasy managers.
He should offer plenty of strikeouts, Bloomberg Sports projects 208, but his lack of control could lead to a WHIP and ERA well above what he's offered when he was at his past two seasons ago.


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Social Status Loss Situations Drive Ethicality
Posted by The Situationist Staff on December 10, 2012
In two recent, fascinating field experiments, Situationist Contributor Julia M. Puaschunder demonstrated how social conscientiousness can be "nudged" by social forces: Social status drops trigger social responsibility.
In a field experiment in Harvard dormitories, social identity insignia (in the form of Harvard logo posters) connected to social norm cues (Sustainability at Harvard posters) promoting environmentalism fostered recycling compliance – once prior social status endowments were taken away. Building on prospect theory, the paper argues looming social status losses are compensated with socially-favored ethicality. Social status downs combined with social norm cues steer social responsibility.
A second study on energy conservation in Harvard libraries found a similar effect. Tent card signage, featuring the Harvard logo, was placed in Harvard Law School's Langdell Library in combination with social norm instructions asking students to turn off their task-light when finished studying. When the social status endowing cards were removed, energy light consumption conscientiousness improved. Situational social status losses related to social norm reminders nudged library visitors towards pro-social environmentalism.
Based on these findings, the Harvard Law School installed similar tent cards in Langdell Library study areas. The results have attracted attention of British Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet Team on Behavioral Insights. The U.S. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education distributed the learning. Follow-up studies in the organizational context have been inspired by the unprecedented idea to use social status endowments to gain social responsibility.
Here's the abstract to the paper titled 'Ethical Decision Making under Social Uncertainty':
Decision making research has been revolutionized by prospect theory. In laboratory experiments, prospect theory captures human to code outcome perspectives as gains or losses relative to an individual reference point, by which decisions are anchored. Prospect theory's core finding that monetary losses loom larger than gains has been generalized in many domains; yet not been tested for social status changes. Social status striving has been subject to social sciences' research for a long time but until today we have no clear picture of how social status prospects relative to an individual reference point may influence our decision making and action. Understanding human cognition in the light of social status perspectives, however, could allow turning social status experiences into ethicality nudges. The perceived endowment through social status may drive social responsibility. Ethicality as a socially-appreciated, noble societal contribution offers the prospect of social status gains given the societal respect for altruism and pro-social acts. An Überethical filling of current legal gaps or outperforming legal regulations grant additional social status elevation opportunities. Building on prospect theory, two field observations of environmentally conscientious recycling behavior and sustainable energy consumption tested if social status losses are more likely to be answered with ethicality than social status gains. Social status losses are found as significant drivers of socially responsible environmental conscientiousness. Testing prospect theory for social status striving advances socio-economics and helps understanding the underlying mechanisms of social identity theories. Pegging social status to ethicality is an unprecedented approach to use social forces as a means for accomplishing positive societal change. Future studies may target at elucidating if ethicality in the wake of social status losses is more a cognitive, rational strategy or emotional compensation for feelings of unworthiness after social status drops.
Download the full paper, 'Ethical Decision Making under Social Uncertainty,' for free here.
Situationist Contributor Julia M. Puaschunder is an Associate of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for the Environment working on intergenerational equity constraints in the domains of environmental sustainability, overindebtedness and social welfare reform of an aging Western world population.
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- The Situation of Cooperation
- Value-Affirmation, and the Situation of Climate Change Beliefs
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- The Situational Effect of Groups
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- Jeffrey Sachs on the Situation of Global Poverty
- Peer Effects – Abstract
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What happens in Vegas no longer stays in Vegas. Prince Harry got naked and lost a royal fortune in poker.
Prince Harry put the crown jewels on display in Vegas getting naked during a game of strip billiards and strip Texas Hold 'Em with a room full of "friends" in his VIP suite. But the Las Vegas pros (i.e. sharks), who were also naked with Harry, took him for $50 million.
Needless to say, the Queen is furious. The Royal Family is now scrambling to pay off Harry's gambling debt. The Queen is notoriously frugal – making all staffers turn off lights as soon as they exit a room. Prince Harry has no comment about his financial loses, but he reportedly had "the best time of my life" in Vegas.
It all went down Friday night during a raging party in a high rollers hotel suite.
TMZ once again did some crack reporting and got hold of these pictures of a naked Harry in his hotel suite – right after losing the $50 million.
He doesn't seem to mind losing his "pounds" in poker:
Harry, along with his large entourage, went down to the hotel bar and met a bunch of young women and invited them up to his VIP suite – to play billards and poker. But little did he know that three of the girls were professional poker players planted by the hotel.
Once in the room, things got wild, with the group playing a game of strip pool that quickly escalated into full-on royal nudity.
Prince Harry went to Las Vegas at the invitation of Ryan Lochte, who also seemed to have a good time.
The Brits are not happy. It costs over $200 million dollars in security to keep Harry safe when in England, "and then the bloke goes and blows the Royal bank account playing poker. He's a real wanker," said royal watcher Ian Woolton.
"He's a young man with lots of testosterone but there is a balance and occasionally that balance slips," Woolton said.
Prince Harry is prepared to get a royal lashing when he returns to England, but he told WWN, "it was worth it. I'm coming back in two months."


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I stumbled across this little gem only because it shared a page with an article I believe is about the sister of my ggg grandmother Ellen Barry. That article from The Argus of June 1, 1849, mentions Mary Walker, the married name of Mary Barry. Why do I think it is about my Mary Walker? Aside from the fact she was living in Melbourne then, the article is under the heading "Police Office" with Mary and another woman described as "two notorious termagants". My Mary Walker caused an immigration agent to lose his bounty on her, thanks to her disruptive behavior on the voyage from Ireland to Port Phillip.
As I rolled my eyes at possibly another discovery of a misdemeanor by one of the Barry girls, I noticed this little snippet two columns over.
Great news for the whales! At last, their winter home in the seas off the south-west of Victoria was safe to visit again. Whaling was a huge industry at both Portland and Port Fairy with Portland's first whaling station established in 1833 and Port Fairy's in 1835. By the 1840s, few whales existed and whaling was no longer considered commercially viable and the whaling stations closed.
As the article notes, by the end of the 1840s, whales were appearing again. Today, their descendants visit the waters of Warrnambool, Port Fairy, and Portland and have become a huge boost to tourism during the colder months. Warrnambool particularly has benefited from whale watching, however this year the main attractions have made only brief visits, preferring Port Fairy, with daily sightings close to shore of up to 13 whales. Portland too has had whales and over the past few days, a whale and her calf have been off the breakwater, oblivious to the slaughters over 170 years ago.


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Dr. Murray Feingold: Is body mass index screening necessary at schools?
The main purpose of schools is to educate students. However, over the years schools have served other functions that include entering the medical arena.
For example, being involved in screening for hearing loss. Parents of children who "failed" their hearing test are informed of this so they can then have their child undergo a more formal hearing examination.
Another example is screening for scoliosis or curvature of the spine. There has not been too much of a parent uproar over these tests although some people have questioned if they are really beneficial.
A much bigger furor has been raised over schoolchildren being screened for their body mass index or BMI. This is a measure of body fat based on the child's height and weight.
In certain states, parents of children whose BMI findings indicate they are overweight or obese are sent letters informing them of this finding. These letters have been referred to by some people as "fat letters."
Recent studies have shown that about a third of all children and adolescents are overweight or obese. These findings are significant because of the association between obesity with medical problems such as heart disease.
Health officials are hopeful that when parents are informed about the presence of obesity, measures will be taken to help prevent it.
However, many parents and others have raised objections to such "fat letters." They are concerned about such things as bullying, inappropriate dieting and the emergence of an eating disorder. It may also have an affect on the child's emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Others believe it is one more example of government getting involved in an issue that should be between the patient and his or her doctor.
Those who are in favor of school BMI testing point out that other school public health programs have been successful such as mandatory school entrance requirements of having proper vaccinations and vision and hearing tests.
A recent article in favor of BMI screening points out that most of the surveys in Arkansas, where BMI screening programs have been present for over four years, have not shown any negative consequences.
What we presently know is being overweight and obese are associated with medical problems. And, the majority of times, although not always easy, obesity is preventable.
Now we need to determine the most effective way that does the most good and least amount of harm to the child to detect the presence of obesity.
It is a worthwhile endeavor.
Massachusetts-based Dr. Murray Feingold is the physician in chief of The Feingold Center for Children, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio, and president of the Genesis Fund. The Genesis Fund is a nonprofit organization that funds the care of children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.


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March 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Just came across this post while researching support materials to include in my divorce and custody newsletter.
My clients continually question the "ethics" of attorneys who either represent clients who are denying their children access to the other parent without cause or are allowing this type of custody case to drag on in court as a means to establish status quo for their client as the residential parent.
Your post does an excellent job at identifying the ethical parameters of attorneys and clarifying their ethical obligations. However, based on the scenarios I described, it is also understandable why parents view attorneys' conduct in these situations as less than honorable.
May 6, 2008 at 7:42 pm
A wise lawyer once told me 'you can have all the justice you can afford'. It does not get more pithy then that. Should be printed on all lawyers business cards.
August 21, 2008 at 5:23 pm
What are the legal ramifications if you can prove a soon to be ex-spouse and their attorney are lying? Or, is the attorney not held accountable for lies their client is telling, even though it is very clear that their allegations are completely false? Can the attorney and client be sued in this case? Is this state dependent?
November 27, 2008 at 1:19 pm
would like the answer to the above thanks
April 9, 2009 at 9:50 am
After reading David Yosifon's apology for lawyers was a fun read. I know some lawyers that are genuinely good people and I know some snakes, and I know some lawyers that are genuinely snakes. I actually stopped watching television series' like Law and Order because it was too troubling to my sense of justice and support for the system.
I watched a lawyer coach a client before a trial one day. The accused was wanting to say he was not guilty and have the lawyer do some fancy talking to get him off. The lawyer looked in sternly in the eye and said, "You need to plead guilty or get another lawyer." That is the kind of lawyer I would want, an honest one.
May 9, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I desparately need these answers on lawyers also. Answer so far: Snakes.
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Villagers beat young man and his relatives, as well as burn their crops and press charges.
SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan, October 11 (CDN) — A young Christian has been jailed for nearly eight months and his family was attacked after a Muslim friend framed him for murder, he said.
Yassir Masih, 18, has been locked up at Sheikhupura District Jail since his arrest in late February. In an interview at Narang Mandi police station at that time, Masih said that on Feb. 17 his Muslim friend Muhammad Mubashir came to his house late at night and asked him to accompany him on "an urgent piece of work."
Residents of Pandori village in Sheikhupura district, Mubashir and Masih went to the home of Muhammad Imran, who was in love with the same girl as Mubashir; Masih said the two one-time friends often quarreled over her, with bitter enmity eventually developing between them.
"Being a friend, I went with him, reluctantly, and we soon arrived at the door of Muhammad Imran," Masih said. "Muhammad Mubashir knocked on the door, and as soon as Muhammad Imran opened the door, Muhammad Mubashir opened fire with his pistol, killing Muhammad Imran on the spot."
The gunfire awakened villagers, who gathered and began to search for the killer, Masih said. Frightened of the mob and not wanting to put his family in danger, Masih did not return home but fled with Mubashir. The two young men hid in a field of crops, where they decided to leave the village until passions cooled, he said. As Masih left the village, however, he was unaware that Mubashir had melted into the mob that was looking for the killer, he said.
"Later Muhammad Mubashir went to his house and slept in his warm bed that shivering cold winter night," Masih said.
The next day villagers discovered Masih was missing and therefore accused him of killing Imran, he said.
They didn't stop at that, said Khalid Gill, chief organizer for Punjab Province of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance. Gill said that in order to deprive the wealthy Christian family of their profitable strawberry, wheat, corn and other crops, Mubashir's father, Muhammad Gulfam, filed murder, arms possession and terrorism charges not only against Masih but also against his 50-year-old father Abid Masih, as well as brothers Khalid Masih, 30; Asif Masih, 23; Ashir Masih, 15; Faisal Masih, 13; and two others unnamed.
"Most of the Muslims in the area harbored jealousy against the prosperous Christian family," Gill pointed out, explaining why Gulfam also pressed charges against members of Yassir Masih's family.
Additionally, the angry villagers on Feb. 18 overran the property of Masih's grandfather, Rehmat Masih, where four of the late patriarch's sons lived; the mob beat women and children with clubs and looted appliances, clothes and other household items, Gill said.
"Nothing was left of use for the Christian family," Gill said.
He added that the villagers ransacked Yassir Masih's home and burned 20 acres of his fields on Feb. 18. The village comprises about 2,000 Muslim families and only 15 Christian homes, he said.
Officers from Narang Mandi police station arrested Yassir Masih later than month. He and his family members told officers that Mubashir shot Imran, but police listened only to the lies of the plaintiff, Masih said.
On Feb. 19 Yassir Masih's mother, Shamshad Bibi, went to the Narang Mandi police station to file a complaint against the Muslim villagers for attacking and looting their house and burning their crops, Gill said. Police filed a case against the attackers but so far no one has been arrested, and "all the Muslim leaders who instigated the Muslim mob to attack are still at large," Gill said.
At the same time, Narang Mandi police have arrested not only Yassir Masih but his brothers Ashir Masih and Asif Masih, 15 and 23 years old respectively, Gill said. While Yassir Masih has been incarcerated at Sheikhupura District Jail, Ashir Masih and Asif Masih were interrogated by Criminal Investigation Agency officers and have been kept at an undisclosed location since Feb. 18.
The accused Christian's father, Abid Masih, as well as Khalid Masih, were still in hiding at press time. Police exonerated young Faisal Masih of all charges on Sept.1. Gill said that the 13-year-old boy had moved to an undisclosed location.
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